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REMARKS OF THE PRESIDENT 

IN PRESENTING TO 


MADAM CURIE. 


A GIFT OF RADIUM FROM THE 
AMERICAN PEOPLE 


3 P. M., MAY 20, 1921 



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GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 
1921 


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REMARKS 


($%■>% 

Madame Curie 


It is with an especial satisfaction that I perform the pleasant duty 
which has been assigned to me today. On behalf of the American 
Nation I greet and welcome you to our country, in which you will 
everywhere find the most cordial possible reception. We welcome 
you as an adopted daughter of France, our earliest supporter among 
the great nations. We greet you as a native-born daughter of 
Poland; newest, as it is also among the oldest, of the great nations, 
and always bound by ties of closest sympathy to our own Republic. 
In you we see the representative of Poland restored and reinstated 
to its rightful place, of France valiantly maintained in the high estate 
which has ever been its right. 

As a nation whose womanhood has been exalted to fullest par¬ 
ticipation in citizenship, we are proud to honor in you a woman 
whose work has earned universal acclaim and attested woman’s 
equality in every intellectual and spiritual activity. 

We greet you as foremost among scientists in the age of science, as 
leader among women in the generation which sees woman come tar¬ 
dily into her own. We greet you as an exemplar of liberty’s victories 
in the generation wherein liberty has won her crown of glory. 

In doing honor to you we testify anew our pride in the ancient 
friendships which have bound us to both the country of your adop¬ 
tion and that of your nativity. We exalt anew our pride that we 
have stood with them in the struggle for civilization, and have 
touched elbows with them in the march of progress. 

It has been your fortune, Madame Curie, to accomplish an im¬ 
mortal work for humanity. We are not without understanding of 
the trials and sacrifices which have been the price of your achieve¬ 
ment. We know something of the fervid purpose and deep devotion 
which inspired you. We bring to you the meed of honor which is due 
to preeminence in science, scholarship, research, and humanitarian- 
ism. But with it all we bring something more. We lay at your 
feet the testimony of that love which all the generations of men have 
been wont to bestow upon the noble woman, the unselfish wife, the 
devoted mother. If, indeed, these simpler and commoner relations of 
life could not keep you from great attainments in the realms of 
science and intellect, it is also true that the zeal, ambition, and un¬ 
swerving purpose of a lofty career could not bar you from splendidly 
doing all the plain but worthy tasks which fall to every woman’s lot. 

A number of years ago a reader of one of your earlier works on 
radio-active substances noted the observation that there was much 
divergence of opinion as to whether the energy of radio-active sub¬ 
stances is created within those substances themselves, or is gathered 

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to them from outside sources, and then diffused from them. The 
question suggested an answer which is doubtless hopelessly unscien¬ 
tific. I have liked to believe in an analogy between the spiritual 
and the physical world. I have been very sure that that which I 
may call the radio-active soul, or spirit, or intellect—call it what you 
choose—must first gather to itself, from its surroundings, the power 
that it afterwards radiates in beneficence to those near it. I be¬ 
lieve it is the sum of many inspirations, borne in on great souls, 
which enables them to warm, to scintillate, to radiate, to illu¬ 
mine and serve those about them. I am so sure of this explana¬ 
tion for the radio-active personality that I feel somehow a convic¬ 
tion that science will one day establish a like explanation for radio¬ 
activity among inanimate substances. 

Perhaps, in my innocence of science, lam airily rushing in where 
scientists fear to tread. But I am trying to express to you my con¬ 
viction that the great things achieved by great minds would never 
have been wrought without the inspiration of an appealing need 
for them. That appeal comes as inspiration to successful effort, and 
success in turn enables the outgiving of benefits to millions whose 
only contribution has been the power of their united appeal. x 

Let me press the analogy a little farther. The world to-day is 
appealing to its statesmen, its sociologists, its humanitarians, and 
its religious leaders for solution of appalling problems. I want to 
hope that the power and universality of that appeal will inspire 
strong, devout, consecrated men and women to seek out the solution, 
and, in the light of their wisdom, to carry it to all mankind. I have 
faith to believe that precisely that will happen; and in your own 
career of fine achievement I find heartening justification for my 


faith. 


In testimony of the affection of the American people, of their con¬ 
fidence in your scientific work, and of their earnest wish that your 
genius and energy may receive all encouragement to carry forward 
your efforts for the advance of science and conquest of disease, I have 
been commissioned to present to you this little phial of radium. To 
you we owe our knoAvledge and possession of it, and so to you we 
give it, confident that in your possession it will be the means further 
to unveil the fascinating secrets of nature, to widen the field of useful 
knowledge, to alleviate suffering among the children of man. Take 
it to use as your wisdom shall direct and your purpose of service 
shall incline you. Be sure that we esteem it but a small earnest of 
the sentiments for which it stands. It betokens the affection of one 
great people for another. It will remind you of the love of a grateful 
people for yourself; and it will testify in the useful work to which 
you will devote it, the reverence of mankind for one of its foremost 
benefactors and most beloved of women. 



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